Every autumn, tens of millions of monarch butterflies take wing in southern Ontario, embarking on a miraculous 3,000-kilometre, two-month journey, arriving in central Mexico in late October and early November.... More »

International leadership based on sound science can lead to great results. For proof, we need only "look up, look way up," as one of my colleagues at CBC used to say. The ozone layer is no longer shrinking. More »

When the six-year-old daughter of David Suzuki Foundation sustainable fisheries analyst Scott Wallace returned from a birthday party, excited about the hockey cards she got in her loot bag, her... More »

The National Energy Program was implemented by the federal Liberal government in 1980 partly in response to skyrocketing oil prices. When the Conservatives came to power in 1984, they dismantled... More »

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Science Matters, a weekly column by David Suzuki on issues related to science and the environment, goes out to more than 120 media outlets across Canada and is translated into French, Chinese and Japanese.